* 1961 – Rory Bremner, Scottish comedian

* 1961 – The Russian ( Soviet ) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 ( Vostok 1 ).

* 1961 – Enedina Arellano Félix, Mexican drug trafficker

* 1961 – Lisa Gerrard, Australian singer, musician, and composer ( Dead Can Dance )

* 1961 – Charles Mann, American football player

* 1961 – Magda Szubanski, Australian actress

* 1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.

* 1961 – Isiah Thomas, American basketball player

* 1961 – Yolanda Adams, American singer, producer, and actress

* 1961 – Tom Ford, American fashion designer and director

* 1961 – Helmut Winklhofer, German footballer

* 1881 – Leo Carrillo, American actor ( d. 1961 )

* 1961 – Brad Gilbert, American tennis player

* 1961 – John Key, New Zealand politician, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand

* 1961 – Amy Stiller, American comedian and actress

* 1961 – East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants ' attempts to escape to the West.

* 1961 – Sam Champion, American weatherman

* 1961 – Christos Christodoulou, Greek basketball player

* 1961 – Dawnn Lewis, American actress

* 1961 – Stuart Maconie, English journalist, author, and broadcaster

* 1961 – Neil Mallender, England cricketer

* 1961 – Tom Perrotta, American novelist

* 1961 – Sunil Shetty, Indian actor and producer

* 1961 – Cary Stayner, American serial killer

* 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and engineer ( d. 1961 )

Major General Stephen Otu was the first native Ghanaian Chief of Defence Staff, being appointed in September 1961.

* 1961 – Stephen Batchelor, English field hockey player

* 1961 – Stephen Hough, British concert pianist

On September 29, 1961, Falk and Walter Matthau guest-starred in the premiere episode, " The Million Dollar Dump ," of ABC's crime drama Target: The Corruptors !, with Stephen McNally.

In 1961 Stephen Smale shocked mathematicians by proving the Generalized Poincaré conjecture for dimensions greater than four and extended his techniques to prove the fundamental h-cobordism theorem.

* Pope Stephen II ( died 757 ), his successor, called Stephen III until 1961

Chaffee married Martha Horn in Oklahoma City on August 24, 1957, whom he met while on a blind date in September 1955, and had two children, Sheryl Lyn ( born 17 November 1958 ) and Stephen ( born 3 July 1961 ).

" Anne Roe's papers are in the American Philosophical Society archives in Philadelphia ; those records ( as noted by Stephen Goranson on the American Dialect Society list 12 / 31 / 2008 ) identify the interviewed physicist as Howard Percy " Bob " Robertson ( 1903 – 1961 ).

* Stephen Morris ( 1923, published 1961 ): a young pilot takes on a daring and dangerous mission.

* Pilotage ( 1924, published 1961 ): a continuation of " Stephen Morris.

* Stephen Morris and Pilotage ( 1961, written in 1923 ) ISBN 1-84232-297-4

McGann has three younger siblings: Mark ( born in 1961 ), Stephen ( born in 1963 ) and Clare McGann ( born in 1965 ).

An author of novels, short stories, and plays, Mitchell is best known for his 1947 novel, Who Has Seen The Wind, which has sold close to a million copies in North America, and the radio series and later a collection of short stories 1961, Jake and the Kid, which subsequently won the Stephen Leacock Award.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

Kristol was affiliated with the Congress for Cultural Freedom ; he wrote in Commentary magazine from 1947 to 1952, under the editor Elliot Cohen ( not to be confused with Elliot A. Cohen the writer of today's magazine ); co-founder ( with Stephen Spender ) of the British-based Encounter from 1953 to 1958 ; editor of The Reporter from 1959 to 1960 ; executive vice-president of the publishing house Basic Books from 1961 to 1969 ; Henry Luce Professor of Urban Values at New York University from 1969 to 1987 ; and co-founder and co-editor ( first with Daniel Bell and then Nathan Glazer ) of The Public Interest from 1965 to 2002.

Margaret Jane “ Dee Dee ” Myers was born in 1961 in Quonset Point, Rhode Island to Stephen and Judy Myers.

He won his district election every two years from 1961 to 1994 without ever facing a challenge more serious than he faced in the Democratic primary in 1988, when Stephen Holt, a neophyte liberal activist and bookstore owner from Dorchester won 31 out of 60 precincts, only to lose the district by a landslide due to the huge turnout of Bulger supporters in South Boston.

The church did consider Stephen II a Pope until 1960, when he was removed from the list of Popes in 1961.

Famous alumni include Paul Wolfowitz ( Features Editor, 1959 – 1960 ; Editorial Assistant, 1960 – 1961 ) and Stephen Carter ( Editor-in-Chief, 1971 – 1972 ).

In 1961, Moreno landed the role of Anita in Robert Wise's and Jerome Robbins ' film adaptation of Leonard Bernstein's and Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking Broadway musical, West Side Story, which was played by Chita Rivera on Broadway.

As a young child, Hazel and her brother Stephen both played street urchins in the film A Taste of Honey which was filmed in Salford in 1961, when Blears was aged five.

* Alejandro de Quesada: The Bay of Pigs-Cuba 1961 ( illustrated by Stephen Walsh )-Osprey Publishing-Elite Serie n ° 166, 2009.

McKay's counselors in the First Presidency were Stephen L Richards ( First Counselor, 1951 – 1959 ); J. Reuben Clark, Jr. ( Second Counselor ( 1951 – 1959, First Counselor 1959 – 1961 ); Henry D. Moyle ( Second Counselor 1959 – 1961, First Counselor 1961 – 1963 ); Hugh B.